A new manual of perspective: containing remarks on the theory of the art, and its practical application in the procudtion of drawings ... Illustrated by numerous engravings (1849)
Whittock, Nathaniel · London, A. Hall & Co. · leaf 110
bjects the rotundity is shown by the light andshade, rather than by perspective lines. Operation 24.—Greenwich and Dover Railway. The annexed engraving of the GreenwichRailway contains a great many objects that havebeen explained in the preceding operations; butas they have not been introduced in a… … We commence at the base line, which herealso forms the lower line of the border of thepicture. Next ascertain the height of thehorizon: it is marked in this drawing the 108 MANUAL OF PERSPECTIVE. height of the head of the diminutive figurestanding in the centre of the road near thearchway. The…
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